Werner Höfer

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Werner Höfer (born March 21, 1913 in Kaisersesch near Cochem; died November 26, 1997 in Cologne) was a German journalist. He started his career as a Nazi propagandist. He expressed publicly his satisfaction upon the execution of pianist Karlrobert Kreiten and other opponents of the Nazi regime.

After the war, he was the host of a long-running (34 years) Sunday TV discussion show. He was forced to retire in 1987 when his Nazi past became known to a wider public.

His daughter Candida Höfer is a well known photographer.